Incidentally, The Economist did a review this week of Tony Judt's new book (see previous post). Not all parts of the book are "worthy of George Orwell" in their opinion, but somehow I think it'll end up on the shelves of our library in the not too distant future...

...and here's another from the New York Times Book Review (Apr. 20, 2008), suggesting that Judt as a historian is almost as complex as the 20th century itself.